Murray,
Thanks for your suggestion.
So how would I use Row[], ImageSize and Spacer[] to implement myShow[] which simply displays the circles (at the correct sizes) side-by-side with a fixed gap?
showObj[z_]:=Graphics[{Circle[{z,z},z]}]
objs=showObj/@Range[5];
Show[objs]
myShow[objs]
David %^>
-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Eisenberg [mailto:murray at math.umass.edu]
Sent: 18 January 2012 11:05
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg124431] Re: without individual scaling?
How about just plain Row, and if needed, control the size of each
graphics object in that row by using Show[...., ImageSize -> ... ]. For
example:
rose = Import["ExampleData/rose.gif"];
shuttle = ExampleData[{"Geometry3D", "SpaceShuttle"}];
Row[{Show[rose, ImageSize -> 100], Show[shuttle, ImageSize -> 200]}]
You can insert space between objects in a Row, if you wish, using Spacer.
On 1/16/12 5:04 PM, David Bevan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since asking this question I have discovered GraphicsRow[].
>
> What I need is some way of doing GraphicsRow[objs] but without each graphics getting scaled individually.
>
> Equivalently, I need is some way of doing Show[objs] but with the graphics in a row, not overlaid.
>
> Clearly, Mathematica has the information to do this. Is there no way for a user to access this information?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David %^>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: David Bevan [david.bevan at pb.com]
> Sent: 10 January 2012 10:57
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: Graphics bounding box in source coordinates?
>
> Is there some way of getting the bounding box of Graphics in the source coordinate system? For example, Show can be used to display an array of objects on top of each other:
>
> showObj[z_]:=Graphics[{Circle[{z,z},z]}]
> objs=showObj/@Range[5];
> Show[objs]
>
> But I want to display them side by side. The following can be used to offset each object by a fixed interval:
>
> graphicsArray[g_,x_]:=Graphics[MapIndexed[Translate[#1,{x (First[#2]-1),0}]&,First/@g]]
> graphicsArray[objs,5]
>
> But I would like the gaps between each object to be of fixed size. So I want a version of graphicsArray which determines the value to pass to Translate by getting the bounding box info from each Graphic.
>
> Rasterize[,"BoundingBox"] doesn't help because it returns the size in pixels after scaling:
>
> Rasterize[#,"BoundingBox"]&/@objs
> {{360,359,182},{360,359,182},{360,359,182},{360,359,182},{360,359,182}}
>
> My real objects are more complex than these simple circles (and I want something reusable with different objects).
>
> Thanks for your help (and apologies if I missed something obvious in the documentation).
>
> David %^>
>
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